MARTIN MAWAYA
HARARE-Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has extended the registration period for November 2023 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations to cater for pupils who failed to meet the deadline of the 14 April.
The five-day registration mop-up exercise will run for one week from 8 to 12 May, 2023.
ZIMSEC spokesperson Nicky Dlamini said the window period was to ensure that all candidates who wish to sit for the November examinations are registered.
“ZIMSEC will carry out a registration mop-up exercise from Monday 8 May 2023 to Friday 12 May 2023 to allow Centres to ensure that all their candidates have been registered for the November 2023 examinations. Candidates who wish to sit for their examinations should ensure that they register at their Centre of choice during this period.
“Examination registration fees during that window are pegged according to the normal registration.
“The registration fees are accepted in the currency parents and guardians are comfortable paying in. For parents who wish to pay in ZWL, payments will be made at the prevailing exchange rate which will be communicated on Friday, 5 May 2023,” she said.
She added that candidates should make their payments at the Centre of registration for onward remittance to ZIMSEC.
Dlamini urged the guardians and candidates to abide by the deadline of the window period.
Stella Tonhodzai from Mucheke A in Masvingo welcomed the move by the national examination body saying it will give parents and guardians who had failed to raise enough examination fees for their children the opportunity to do so.
“The move is a welcome development because poor parents had failed to pay for their children to sit for the November examinations, with this development it gives us an opportunity and enough time to look for examinations fees for our children.
“This shows the body is in touch with reality because most people are poor in this country and had failed to register in time,” said Tonhodzai.
A headmaster at one of the top schools in Masvingo Province who is not authorized to speak to the press said although this is additional work for them it will ensure that all those who wanted to sit for November examinations will be able to do so.
“As educationists there is nothing as exciting as to see your work being put to test, now we will be able to gauge our performance without any excuses because everyone who wants to sit for the November examinations will have the chance to do so,” he said.
